We have forgotten the art of impeccability as a spiritual tool and we suffer mightily from it.

Without the practice of impeccability we never realize what it is to reach our full potential – the code for which we carry in our cellular DNA – we never know the full extent of the unique and creative selves we came to express.

Instead we settle for mediocre lives. We get by. We do what we have to do. And we wonder why we are so dissatisfied or disappointed with life.

Why not make this moment an act of impeccability? Whatever you are doing, give it your full attention. Set the intention to complete the task with precision and excellence, whether it’s chopping vegetables or cleaning the tub… Whether it’s speaking to a friend or caring for a relative. Go beyond what is expected – not to impress them (though it will! 😉) but FOR your own spiritual development!

Make it your habit to rise to your best no matter how great or small the task that is placed before you. Even if the task is an unpleasant one! Especially then!

Allow the practice of impeccability to be a tool for your refinement, shaping you, through its practice, into being the full realization of your own Highest and Best Self.

I recently experienced an “inner instruction” that, in truth, is the reason this email is being written! It’s an encounter with the numinous that has given me the next step for my work with The Reality Formula™.

Here’s the story:

During my visit over the Thanksgiving holidays with my son, Andrew Guilfoil, who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, I was doing my usual morning practice, It was on my last day there, before returning home, that I heard the Inner Voice and saw the accompanying visual in my mind. It was a visual that left no question in my mind as to what my next steps were to be.

I saw a window in my mind, through which my work setting in Chattanooga was transported to Saint Petersburg, Florida. I saw my son and I working together. Interesting since he was in that moment planning the grand opening of his new dance studio, L’Academie of Dance.

An aside: Andrew is a classically trained Ballet Master with his own teaching protocol. He and I have been blending our strengths and co-facilitating workshops together for twenty-five years. We have slowly evolved a body of work around how the physical body takes on victim consciousness, actually “wearing” the roles of victim, thus transmitting the emotional frequency that matches our own victim beliefs.

We have often dreamed of a time when we might have the chance to explore movement and the Reality Formula™ in deeper depth. Taking the Guiding Principles™ into movement and then translating the results into a language that can be demonstrated and taught to dancers and kinesthetic attuned others is something Andrew and I get excited about! How exciting to think that my move there might put us in physical proximity with one another so we can realize that dream.

Ballet has been a world, like most of our society, that believes strongly in the notion that we must “bully others into excellence!” (No wonder we have such issues with kids that bully – it’s all they have ever seen! ) From the knowledge of how the mind works that the Reality Formula™ provides my team, including Danielle Alvarez-Greer, and I, have developed what we call The Reality Formula For Kids™ (RFFK); it is our answer to the “unhappy kid syndrome” that appears to be so rampant in our world today! The RFFK demonstrates how to literally love kids into wanting to excel – not by cushioning them from life or by giving in to them, but by showing them the peace and freedom that comes from learning how to take responsibility for themselves and to be self-accountable. And it works! We’ve proven it with hundreds of kids.

… returning now to the moment of inspiration:

I realized I was feeling strongly inspired to give up my office in Chattanooga and move, at least temporarily, to St. Petersburg. It felt absolutely right and only grew in rightness as I watched the visual unfurl in my mind. But, nonetheless, to protect myself from being totally led astray by the ego’s demands, I asked Source for clarity and guidance. I asked that if I was experiencing true inner guidance that it be reinforced and made evident to me by being effortlessly executed., “And if not, I prayed, “let resistance be the order of the day. May it be only Your Will that prompts.”

And so it has, so far, been effortless. And I have suffered minimal doubt. Within three hours of receiving my moving orders that same morning, I had been led to the right person who took me to the right property with an agreeable lease which I signed for a place where I can live and work while I’m there. EASY!

I herein announce, with both excitement and some sadness in leaving the city I’ve called home since 1980, that: As of February 1st, 2017, I will be commuting back and forth from Monteagle and St Petersburg, Florida.

Even though I will be in Chattanooga much less often now, I will NOT be out of your reach! I Will be available to you by Skype, by phone, by Face Time, as well as in person, when you attend our workshop intensives and/or certification courses offered throughout the year.

By the way, we also found a new venue for our workshops in Monteagle (my primary residence continues to be in Monteagle) at the Dubose Conference Center; we are thrilled for this addition to our gratitude list! (http://www.duboseconf.org/ )

Although we will no longer inhabit a physical office, Jaquetta will continue to work for our company (REAL, LLC) from her home in Chattanooga.

Our office phone will stay the same: (423) 698-0814

Or you can reach us by email at: private@lynneforrest.com.

Also you CAN now schedule your own private appointments with me direct (for phone and Skype sessions only) from our Setmore calendar Just scroll down and click on “Book Appointment,” and follow the prompts from there.

Thank you to all of my friends and clients in Chattanooga. I have felt so loved and supported over the years by you. I do not know if I will return to Chattanooga for more than visits in the future, but nothing will ever fill the space that Chattanooga holds in my heart.

And at the same time, I’m on fire for the journey. I love feeling in step with what I believe I am here to do. I feel grateful that I get to witness the prolific evidence of an ongoing exchange between our Self and Source every single day. I have learned that Anything is possible.

If you are feeling called to step more deeply into the work and teachings that I offer – you might consider speaking with us about further training in the Reality Formula™. We have lots of opportunities coming your way.

Starting this spring, on April 11th, 2017, The Reality Formula for Kids™ Certification Course starts.

We consider this course to be the elemental teaching for the Reality Formula™. Simplified for kids; it teaches the basics of how to live the Reality Formula™ in our own lives, and in our families. It is an eight week course, and includes a weekend training intensive at the end. Danielle Alvarez-Greer (co-founder of Reality Formula™ For Kids) and I will be offering this course both onsite in Chattanooga, and by Skype to interested students.

As turbulent as our world may be, the Reality is that there are ways to peace. We have found key principles that allows us a sense of purpose and peace even in this confused world.

I believe the Reality Formula™ is needed now more than ever! I believe I (maybe you, too?) am being called to take it out into the world. I go unhesitatingly, which does not mean there is no fear. I, too, too have old stories that arise in the mind to instill doubt and fear. I ask that you place the Reality Formula™ and me, as its mouthpiece, in a bubble of love and protection.

I visualize us, you and me, in alignment with the guiding principles, that they may bring us fully into the adventure of walking in conscious dialog with a Universe that is closer to us than our very skin.

The Reality Formula®️ is a phrase that describes what all minds do, whether we are conscious of it or not:

When we believe what we think, we feel and act as if it’s true … and when we feel and act as if what we think is true, we automatically react in ways that will prompt others to prove us right.

The Reality Formula®️ is the name given to the whole process of making conscious the thoughts we are believing and living out in our daily lives. It is a process that was developed by Lynne Forrest that describes both the roles we play when we feel at the mercy of life (living in Victim Consciousness) as well as a step by step process out of Victim Consciousness. The way out is basically to apply ancient precepts of Truth that when followed establish inner peace and outer harmony.

The Reality Formula®️ is applicable to all aspects of life, from the personal to family, in the school classroom, and even in the work place – wherever Victim Consciousness plays out – which is everywhere: in personal relationship, in politics, religion, in business, basically wherever humans interact with one another. Actually, Victim Consciousness starts in our interpersonal relationship with ourselves, and spreads from there.

After thirty years of observing these dynamics in the families and individuals of her clients. Lynne Forrest wrote the book, ” Guiding Principles For Life Beyond Victim Consciousness. Having been a Life Coach since 1985, she developed The Reality Formula®️ as a way for her clients to find inner peace that is simple, highly effective, and continuously expanding. Lynne spent many years in her private practice observing clients and their family members caught up in misery due to their unhappy beliefs, searching for practical tools for daily application that would serve as an antidote to the Victim Triangle, a diagram that accurately describes the three roles we all play whenever we succumb to Victim Consciousness. It has been a long, but highly productive search that continues to evolve right up to the present moment. Hundreds of her clients over the years have attested that their lives have been radically transformed for the better as a result of The Reality Formula®️. Transformed lives of whole families for 2-3 generations, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc., have been transformed for the better through her efforts on her way to developing the model she now calls “The Reality Formula®️.

Sign up for Reality Formula Live , our online bi-monthly webinar where you can learn more about both the adult and kid version of The Reality Formula through live interaction with Lynne on a regular twice a month basis.

Since there are NO coincidences, we know that this thing that is happening in our qigong community is not an aberrant happening … it is a call to Awaken those parts of us that are still lost in blame…

Personally I have no desire to talk anybody in to or out of anything. That is not the intention of this post. I trust that we each are handling the situation of abuse in our qigong community in the way we must … and I hold a vision of a greater peace becoming possible between us all. I want to write about THAT possibility.

As I see it, we either trust the Guiding Principles to be true or we don’t. We trust they mean what they teach on EVERY LEVEL, including situations like this which we find ourselves in now, or we don’t.

For our qigong community and for our super-star teacher (for that he is!) it means that what is IS for a reason. The first guiding principle is based on the Law of Cause and Effect, which, among other things, teaches that there are no coincidences in life. What we experience with one another is the natural consequence of a previous cause.

For example, let’s say your dog, frightened by stormy weather, snapped at the hand of a friend, who retaliated by slapping the dog, which prompted you to intervene for your pet by verbally dressing down the friend whose hand was bitten. As a result your friend turns on you in anger and resentment, prompting you to react negatively to her, and on and on and on … Of course, which side of the fence you are riding determines whether you see what’s happening as a “good” or a “bad” thing. And that will change as you shift places with your friend, moving from one unhappy position to another. (Notice there is no happy place on the triangle!) The bottom line is that every happening was connected to a previous “cause,” creating a chain of cause and effect. In that same way, we are all links on a chain of events connected by the same original cause. Spiritual principles teach us that the original cause is always mental by design. In other words, what causes us to be and do what we do is the thoughts behind the action. Blaming thoughts hold us in victim consciousness and make peace impossible.

As long as we blame we are still moving around the victim triangle, from feeling victimized (Victim), to justified rage(Persecutor), to feeling the need to rescue the perceived victims (Rescuer) by pointing out to them their victim status, and initiating a few rounds of “Ain’t It Awful” with them to really drive home the fact that they have been violated.

PLEASE DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND ME! I am not trying to imply that we must minimize what has happened, nor does it help to justify, or rationalize the actions of our teacher. Far from it … It’s just that when we step back from blame and look at the situation through the guiding principles, we quickly realize that there is no “side” to take! What we see instead is an opportunity in our community to move past blame.

After all we get to choose whether to split ourselves off into two categories: victims versus perpetrators. Or whether we choose to move past the need to ascribe blame towards a greater understanding instead. To insist on ascribing victim/persecutor status to individuals, is to keep us going round and round on the victim triangle.

Although the reasons we are having this experience in our lives may vary from individual to individual, we are still one body with varied parts having this experience together and interpreting it in our own unique way. When we accuse others, it is always important to also look for where the accused lives within us!

It’s also helpful to remember that we are vibrational beings, which means we magnetically attract the people and experiences we need to encounter that will motivate us for change most. Perhaps we attracted this teacher into our lives because we needed to experience the voice in us that identifies itself as a victim. Perhaps we need to stand up for ourselves, speak our truth, or walk away from something to take care of ourselves … Perhaps on the other hand, we tend to be the one who “takes advantage of” others … in some way … Perhaps we are being given the opportunity to make peace with the part of us that abuses ourselves!

We only know that we need to do what we do, because those are the things we find ourselves doing. OR perhaps we need to stay and experience abuse, or for some other reason … perhaps we don’t see abuse at all … but whatever our Reality is, it is always based on our own thoughts, beliefs and interpretations of the situation.

There is not a single thing we encounter on our path that is not there by the Universe’s design and Its desire to help us awaken to the Reality we create through the thoughts we believe. This is what we mean when we say there is NO problem. I hold no “should’s” about what I’m hearing, or about what the Teacher or any of the students who are stepping forward to present their thoughts and truth “should” do. I trust that each of us are learning from this event in our lives. (I know I am!)

While shifting our perception away from blame may not alter the course of the action we feel we must take, it dramatically changes the vibrational frequency of both outcome, AND the way we feel and see it from inside.

Seeing ourselves as victims of a “sexual predator” for instance, may spiral us down on the victim triangle to hell, whereas seeing ourselves as having gotten involved with someone who uses females for his own purposes leaves us free to ask why we needed that particular experience (how do we know we needed it? because we had it – it is what is… ) It allows us to look for how we can grow from the situation, and free us up to choose differently next time: i.e. “I learned that lesson, and now must move on … or take a stand … or report abuse… ” or whatever it is we feel we must do – not from a place of victim/blame, but because it is what we must do to learn what this is happening to teach us.

But when we see ourselves as being a victim (remember we can be victimized, without ever resorting to victim consciousness!) we take that ride… we feel all the feelings and think all the thoughts that go with the belief that we are a victim of the circumstances, and we will play the part. To see the situation as something we experienced to help us see our own beliefs better and what those beliefs are attracting into our lives leaves us feeling stronger, more enlightened, and like we took an unpleasant situation and used it for our own refinement! NO BLAME – of them – of ourselves.

But it lets THEM off the hook, we think, right? It’s our job to punish them? We must control their behavior? Are these things true? When we believe these things who do we become?

It’s like being in a pit with a rattlesnake … we appreciate it’s beauty, even as we respect it’s bite… but we don’t make their behavior about or at us! We don’t need to see ourselves as the snake’s victim … nor do we need to turn the snake into some evil force … it’s just a snake doing what snakes do …

Teachers simply do what they do to play out their own beliefs for their own growing edge so they can see in visible form that which they believe … in other words, they are JUST LIKE US!

And if a teacher is playing out a story that mixes and mingles with our own, that is not by accident either! Perhaps our work is to call him on his behavior … it could be that we are called on to play that part. And we can trust he must have needed to experience that too … life relentlessly reflects to us the frequency we put out … this is how we come to know what our internal programming is – through playing it out with others and facing the consequences that programming brings. Perhaps, for instance, he needed to hear his own internal voice speaking to him through our harsh words … there is no right or wrong … it’s all happening right on time for the purpose of evolving souls.

To move past blame we access the Observer Consciousness which does not operate from blame.

The Observer has no need to deem one person’s acts “wrong,” and another person’s acts “right.” It does not need to take sides – even though it may appear to do so on occasion.

The Observer in us looks at the situation through a lens that sees no blame; It sees people, not as good or bad, right or wrong, but as having the life process they came to have through the encounters and people they meet on their vibrational frequency pathway…

The Observer is not invested personally in what action is taken … It knows that people do what they do because they believe what they think, and that what they think is what causes them to feel and react the way they do, and that is what then attracts to them that which will prove them right. (so says the Reality Formula™) …

The Observer Self does not have a list of should’s about how the outcome of a particular situation should go; it does not demand that others act any differently than they do. The Observer simply sees what is. It sees Reality as a growth opportunity for everyone involved.

Since Earth is where we come to live out, in three-dimensional form, the thoughts we believe, the Observer trusts that which we each attract into our lives – not to be painless – but to expand and grow us … which is truly the soul’s greatest interest.

The Observer sees what is, without needing to make how others respond into our business. What any of us, including the Teacher in question, gets from this current situation, or what anyone else learns from it, is NOT our business – the Observer notes. We do not need to judge or blame to set thing right. We simply see Reality for what it is and apply what we see to refining ourselves for the greatest results.

To recapitulate, there is no remedy, no real transformation possible through Blame. Blaming another, even when we are right, will not “make” them different. But the widely accepted worldview says WE must judge, label, and punish those we blame. Nonetheless, regardless of how many systems use blame as their primary default to stop “abuse,” it does not enhance it’s ability to do so. Quite the opposite, in fact; the more we blame the more we will be blamed, and the more we resist the more we will be met with resistance, and the further from peace we move.

The guiding principles offer an alternative to blame that does not need to separate ourselves from the other, regardless of what they may have done, without denying their behavior or making excuses for them either.

Giving up blame does not mean to DENY or JUSTIFY abuse. It does not mean to pretend it did not happen. It does not mean we must give up our feelings about it happening …

Giving up blame simply means that we have come to ACCEPT the Reality that people do what they do, including violate others, because they believe their own unhappy thoughts. We accept, without making excuses for them, we see the repercussions their choices bring and we step out of the way of trying to intervene on those consequences. We understand that they, like us, are here to experience their path and part of that experience is to live out their beliefs so they can experience the full impact of that … whether they are making choices we approve of or not … that is not our business.

There’s a cause and a effect that the Universe is after … and it helps to remember that the Universe always works FOR us (God is LOVE!).

In greatest respect and love for my qi community and the teacher who brought us all together.

Recently my inner process brought me around to seeing my work in a more concentrated way. I was looking for ways to make the services I offer more personal, more intimate … in other words, I’ve been thinking in terms of “going small” rather than investing in ways to appeal to more and more people.

Let me share with you what brought me around to seeing my work in a more concentrated way – how it was decided that I was to work with those who are seriously committed to freeing their consciousness from victim consciousness … with those who know there is no price too large to pay for the sake of a life changing, peace evoking, consciousness.

It came up for me recently during my morning practice, just as I was relaxing into the thought, “you’re doing a good job, Lynne,” my inner satisfaction suddenly was hit and brought back to Reality by a vivid recall of actual “mind-photos” of myself, depicting ways I have derailed, or gotten in the way of assisting consciousness. I saw all too plainly how, for instance, I had busily pursued my own agenda, for instance, of how it should all be done, rather than to wait for further inner instruction.

I saw how often my well-intentioned ideas and doings actually blocked Universal Flow, rather than allowing it to bring its healing balm through me to benefit others and myself. I realized that whenever I pursue my own plans and opinions of the way things “should” be, I resort to a sort of “frenzied doing” which only cuts me off from the Inner Voice, leaving me unable to hear it at all. I saw how easily distracted by my mission of “taking it out to the world” ,,, and I saw how doing so left me serving my self rather than serving Source. I even saw how I’d used spiritual principles to achieve my own personal goals for name recognition and financial gain! “Disgusting!” I thought and cringed inwardly, feeling sick to my stomach at the inner sight.

As I began to spiral into self-repulsion, the inner vision shifted and suddenly I was seeing the other side of the coin … vignettes began to crystalize in my mind that showed me the opposite side of me. I saw how in spite of my fumbling, bumbling ways, I had still been rendered useful by Source … and I remembered that the Universe is never wasteful. It uses everything for its own good purposes, regardless of that thing’s intention.

I could see that, even in my pitiful “know-it-all” state of consciousness, the Universe made use of me nonetheless. In spite of all the ways I blocked flow, clients and students were in fact able to make use of my sharing to better their lives. I had been provided with testimony after testimony beating evidence to that Reality.

Suddenly I realized the simplicity of my true assignment.

I saw that I wasn’t supposed to “go big!” I was supposed to go small instead!

Suddenly I could see that I was designed to work on a more personal and intense level with a select few people at a time – not so much with crowds … because the deep inner work cannot be done in a crowd … Most personal healing happens in small settings, with a few people who are intensely present for us … the very settings I had been trained in, and worked best in! Oh the blindness of those who cannot see for the opinions, like trees, that block their view!

I was being asked to take the work to a much more personal level. To work one on one … to rub shoulders and go down in the trenches with those with whom I work to guide them through a release of old patterns and energy blockages that stand in their way to mental freedom.

My greatest impact, I saw suddenly, comes in the face to face contact with my clients, when I can see them, look into their eyes, watch their thoughts leave fleeting trails in their facial expressions that allow me to personally support them in ways not possible in a crowd. I am here to take a select few through a process of learning the art of surrendering victim consciousness and to build a new consciousness, based in gratitude and trust, rather than in fear and blame.”

But then, of course, the inner critical “buzz” started. In the darkness created by eyes held tightly closed, I heard my own inner debate play out in my mind … fear versus trust … until finally, cutting straight through to the heart of the matter, I heard that familiar voice, the precise, quiet, yet relentlessly kind voice I’ve come to know so well; it said; “Do not hesitate to do what you are being asked to do to accomplish the task I have set before you to do. Take no shortcuts.”

And the value of learning the principles I’ve been taught for achieving peace occurred to me. And a question arose in my mind: “What do you think the value might be for a person to have the opportunity to live beside a spiritual life coach or mentor for a couple of days to help them sort through their own mental jungle of unhappy thoughts towards reframing them? What price can one put on the opportunity to receive personal pointers on attuning with Reality, and to experience the healing powers of Nature simultaneously? “

I was prompted to see that my efforts to “cast a wider net” are not necessarily what’s best for the population I am called to serve. Redirecting my focus towards the few who are committed, that know they are ready for a deeper, and authentic experience.

I arose from my practice that morning with my eyes set in a new direction … of going small … and more personal … of creating an environment conducive to encounters with Reality and Life in ways that align us and bring inner peace.
Are you ready to join me in going small and deep into the healing waters of Reality?